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50 Years Later, A Forgotten Exploitation Thriller Has Proven Secretly Influential

Before 'Mad Max' blew open the Ozploitation phenomenon, there was Peter Weir's 'The Cars That Ate Paris.'

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Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival

Australian film-maker behind Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli celebrated for defining country’s culture and ‘global influence on craft, form and storytelling’

The Guardian - AU

Sydney film festival 2026: nine of the best movies and one free event

With 248 films to choose from, highlights include The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus and a ‘psychosexual horror’ starring Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson

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Three decades later, The Truman Show feels freshly disturbing – and astoundingly prescient

Peter Weir’s dystopian comedy, starring Jim Carrey as the unwitting star of his own reality TV series, takes on new resonance in the techno-capitalist era

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Robin Williams ignored Dead Poets Society script

Ethan Hawke has recalled his amazement at seeing the late Robin Williams deviate from the script during the making of Dead Poets Society.

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Joan Lindsay published Picnic at Hanging Rock at 71. Her writing life presents its own mysteries

Brenda Niall’s new book, as its full title announces, is a biographical account of the “hidden life” of novelist Joan Lindsay, best known as the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock review – Australian fever dream still dazzling 50 years on

Peter Weir’s 1975 parable of imperial anxiety and sexual hysteria, rereleased for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of Australian new wave cinema

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‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’

The Guardian - UK

Sinn Fein ‘ignored role of 3,000 deaths in damaging community relations’

A former NIO minister had launched a consultation on a new good relations strategy for NI in 2003.

The Independent UK

5 movies on Prime Video with over 88% on Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video's December 2024 schedule is just as vibrant as its previous lists. But these five movies have made their way into my watchlist.

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Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris – a driving force in Ozploitation filmmaking

It has been 50 years since the cinema release of Peter Weir’s iconic, offbeat, cult classic The Cars That Ate Paris. The film seared the image of a silver Volkswagen Beetle weaponised with deadly spikes into the national imagination. It also helped shape the tropes of Ozploitation filmmaking within the…

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Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival

Australian director of Gallipoli and Dead Poets Society praised by festival for his impact in Hollywood ‘while keeping his distance from the American movie industry’

The Guardian - AU

From mythic creatures to innovative documentaries: 10 films to see at Sydney film festival 2024

The 5-16 June program includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Kinds of Kindness, and a hairy family in Sasquatch Sunset

The Guardian - AU

50 Of The Best And Most Surprising Movie Details You Probably Never Noticed

We’ve gathered some of the best examples of cool, creative and downright bizarre easter eggs hidden in movies. The post 50 Of The Best And Most Surprising Movie Details You Probably Never Noticed first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema

Total Film

The 10 best drama movies of all time, ranked

From Citizen Kane to No Country for Old Men, here's the best dramas that you absolutely need to watch today

The Guardian - US

Master and Commander at 20: a miraculous masterpiece of action cinema

Peter Weir’s adventure didn’t find enough of an audience in 2003 but its old-fashioned sturdiness has given it a long life

The Conversation

Master and Commander at 20: how a film about men fighting at sea is actually a safe harbour of positive masculinity

At 20, Peter Weir’s 2003 masterpiece Master and Commander remains a captivating historical drama – and an emblem of wholesome masculinity.

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Every Reference and Easter Egg in the 'Barbie' Movie, Explained

From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to Marcel Proust.

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What to stream: A film guide to enhance your 'Barbie' viewing experience

“Barbie” isn’t just a movie that uses the iconic doll to explore themes of existentialism, the human condition and patriarchy. It’s also a true celebration of cinematic history. Writer and director Greta Gerwig shared her list of 33 films that inspired “Barbie” on the cinephile social network Letterboxd recently, but…

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The Truman Show Writer Reveals Alternate Final Line Jim Carrey Almost Said, Plus One Of The ‘Darker’ Scrapped Plotlines

The Truman Show writer revealed an alternate final line Jim Carrey almost said, along with one of the darker scrapped plotlines.

The Guardian - UK

Harrison Ford’s 20 best performances – ranked!

Still an action hero at 80: we celebrate the charismatic carpenter’s finest screen outings as the fifth Indiana Jones adventure swings into Cannes today – and cinemas next month

The Independent UK

Look back at Gothenburg Greats as Aberdeen mark 40th anniversary of European win

The club and city council are honouring the players, who will be awarded the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen in a ceremony on Friday.

Daily Record

Inside legendary St Mirren and Celtic Scottish Cup double corker not for TV as legend turns to YouTube

The classy midfielder had eight unrewarded years in Paisley before his old Saints boss, Alex Ferguson, took him to Pittodrie in July 1983.

Belfast Live

Linfield appoint ex-DUP politician as General Manager after Pat Fenlon departure

The former DUP Councillor was a special adviser to former Education Minister Peter Weir and later worked full time with Rangers

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